HLU, 'Cliffe SDA May Join Pickets In Bra Co. Strike

The Harvard Liberal Union and Radcliffe Students for Democratic Action have been asked by a union organizer to march in the picket lines in a strike at the Revelation Bra Company in Cambridge this morning.

Both groups and the League for Industrial Democracy are checking the details of the case, and the H.L.U. will send pickets "if they find the case is justified," according to M. Joel Mandelbaum '53, president of the H.L.U.

A busload of Harvard and Radcliffe students is going to the plant, and will observe, if they do not picket. S.D.A. did not plan to picket as of last night.

The International Ladies Garment Workers Union began organizing at the plant a few weeks ago, signed up 85 of the 130 workers, and negotiated an agreement providing for higher wages, vacations with pay, paid holidays, and a health fund. The company then promised similar benefits to the workers, if they did not join the union.

The strike has been one of the most violent in Cambridge labor history.

It has been marked by considerable bitterness on both sides, and a number of strikers have been injured.